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2005 Gas Gas Wild HP240 Quad. The GasGas sport quads are sold under the Wild HP brand and come in two-stroke and fuel-injected four-stroke models. Before 2007, the Wild HP line of quads was available in a choice of blue or red regardless of displacement. Beginning in 2007 the Wild HP line standardized to black.
The bought-in engine is a BMW 450cc 4-stroke single, detuned from 51hp to 41hp. [10] Originally used in the discontinued BMW GP450X, the 450cc engine is now built by Kymco in Taiwan. The CCM has received very favourable comments on its lightness, the engine's responsiveness, and the excellent handling both on- and off-road.
The history of the motorcycle begins in the second half of the 19th century. Motorcycles are descended from the " safety bicycle ," a bicycle with front and rear wheels of the same size and a pedal crank mechanism to drive the rear wheel. [ 1 ]
In an article in Motor Cycle magazine in 1914, [3] Alfred Scott wrote that he was drawn to the two-stroke engine because he was trained on high speed steam and marine engines, and when turning his attention to gas and petrol engines the regular power strokes of the two-stroke (or Day cycle as he sometimes called it), seemed preferable to the one power stroke in four of the Otto cycle.
Animation of a two-stroke engine. A two-stroke (or two-stroke cycle) engine is a type of internal combustion engine that completes a power cycle with two strokes of the piston (one up and one down movement) in one revolution of the crankshaft.
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The fastest production motorcycle for a given year is the unmodified motorcycle with the highest tested top speed that was manufactured in series and available for purchase by the general public. Modified or specially produced motorcycles are a different class, motorcycle land-speed record .